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Marcelo Schapira
Researcher at Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires
Publications - 31
Citations - 1064
Marcelo Schapira is an academic researcher from Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires. The author has contributed to research in topics: Medicine & Dementia. The author has an hindex of 6, co-authored 15 publications receiving 897 citations. Previous affiliations of Marcelo Schapira include University of Buenos Aires.
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Gait Velocity as a Single Predictor of Adverse Events in Healthy Seniors Aged 75 Years and Older
Manuel Montero-Odasso,Marcelo Schapira,Enrique R. Soriano,Miguel Varela,Roberto Kaplan,Luis Camera,L. Marcelo Mayorga +6 more
TL;DR: GV measurement in the ambulatory setting may allow the detection of healthy elderly people at risk for adverse events and may suggest that simple assessment of GV is enough to predict adverse events in well functioning older persons.
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Association of Dual-Task Gait With Incident Dementia in Mild Cognitive Impairment: Results From the Gait and Brain Study.
Manuel Montero-Odasso,Yanina Sarquis-Adamson,Mark Speechley,Michael Borrie,Vladimir Hachinski,Jennie Wells,Patricia M. Riccio,Marcelo Schapira,Ervin Sejdic,Richard Camicioli,Robert Bartha,William E. McIlroy,Susan W. Muir-Hunter +12 more
TL;DR: Dual-task gait testing is easy to administer and may be used by clinicians to decide further biomarker testing, preventive strategies, and follow-up planning in patients with MCI.
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Gait velocity in senior people. An easy test for detecting mobility impairment in community elderly.
Manuel Montero-Odasso,Marcelo Schapira,C Varela,C Pitteri,Enrique R. Soriano,Roberto Kaplan,Luis A Camera,L M Mayorga +7 more
TL;DR: The pathological gait velocity correlates with a pathologic performance of Get Up and Go test and POMA and with the incapacity to perform the One Leg Balance test, an operative tool to apply in the ambulatory care to detect elderly patients with mobility impairment.
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Gait disorders are associated with non-cardiovascular falls in elderly people: a preliminary study.
Manuel Montero-Odasso,Marcelo Schapira,Marcelo Schapira,Gustavo Duque,Enrique R. Soriano,Roberto Kaplan,Roberto Kaplan,Luis A Camera,Luis A Camera +8 more
TL;DR: In community dwelling older persons with unexplained falls, gait disorders were associated with non-cardiovascular diagnosis of falls, providing additional value to this assessment.
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Is collectionism a diagnostic clue for Diogenes syndrome
Manuel Montero-Odasso,Manuel Montero-Odasso,Marcelo Schapira,Gustavo Duque,Mariana Chercovsky,Lucas G. Fernández-Otero,Roberto Kaplan,Luis Camera +7 more
TL;DR: Diogenes syndrome is characterized by extreme self‐neglect, domestic squalor, and social withdrawal, and it is still difficult to persue a correct diagnosis in primary care clinics.